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(b Bagheria, nr. Palermo, 2 Jan. 1912; d Rome, 18 Jan. 1987). Italian painter. He was a forceful personality and Italy's leading 20th-century exponent of Social Realism; he never subordinated artistic quality to political propaganda, but his art was often the direct expression of his hatred of injustice and of the abuse of power.
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Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)